On 19/11/2007, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
As long as we're playing the anecdote game
I've heard complaints from at least
two non-Wikipedian friends about the lack of spoiler warnings. As one put it
"Where'd all the spoiler warnings go?" However, I'm not sure they would
have
had this attitude but for the fact that there was what amounts to a change;
that it, they expected to see spoiler tags and be able to use that advantage
because they had seen them before and were not used to now lack of
them. I have
no idea how common this is.
What swung it for me was that - amongst complaints from the reading
public about each and every other detail you could think of about our
content - I never once saw a complaint that we'd had a lack of
spoilers. (Though enquiring about such produced one or two.) On the
scale of concerns about Wikipedia content, it was not visible.
- d.